The church choir, talent contest and even Nicole Scherzinger influenced the future of one of the most popular performers of recent years Niall Horan. A young man from Ireland for a short time began to conquer music charts around the world. We bring to your attention the most interesting facts from the life and work of the idol of millions of hearts around the world.
early years
Niall Horan was born on September 13, 1993 in the Irish provincial town of Mullingar. The boy’s mother is Maura, his father is Bobby, and the singer also has an older brother named Greg. It is known that Niall’s parents divorced 20 years ago and he and Greg had to move to his mother and father more than once. Four years later, they decided to settle with their father and stay in Mullingar. Maura got married and settled with her husband Chris in the city of Mahas-Trim, Longford County. Fans can hardly find a family photo of Niall Horan in the public domain. Family troubles did not prevent the boy from developing musical abilities since childhood, he began to sing in the church choir. Later, Niall Horan’s father sees talent in him and gives him a guitar for Christmas.
The first steps on the big stage
Star Trek began on the popular western show The X Factor (an analogue of the Russian Star Factory and Voice), in 2010 the 16-year-old Niall applied and became a member of the program. The young man successfully passed the preliminary auditions and was invited to Dublin, where the television shootings took place. Participants spoke to reputable judges - Simon Cowell and Katy Perry. Niall Horan sang Ne-Yo's So Sick song. The young man was allowed to the final audition despite the fact that Katie considered him “immature” and advised him to “grow up” in vocal skills.
The future singer, however, dropped out of the competition at the semifinal stage, but Nicole Scherzinger (who appeared on The X Factor as an invited guest) helped Horan get a second chance and become the fifth member of the new One Direction boy band. The group took third place, but Simon Cowell signed a contract with promising guys. In the collective, his role was small and he could have been much larger, however, the young man modestly acted as a backing vocalist, also Niall Horan wrote some songs for the band’s first album.
Niall and One Direction
The album Up All Night, which became the debut for One Direction, instantly took off on the first lines of the musical charts of America and Britain, they became the first group whose first album immediately took the first places of the charts, and it was a resounding success. For several years, a team of charming and talented guys delighted fans with the annual release of albums and concert tours. One Direction also authored several books, a perfume line, and This Is Us.
In the spring of 2015, rumors leaked to the media that the boy band could not continue to work in such a frantic pace. On March 25, One Direction left the first person - it turned out to be Zane Malik, he took up a solo career. They tried to stop the rumors about the breakup of the popular group with the Made in the AM album, but immediately after the release of the record it was officially announced: the group takes a creative break, and if the fate of all the other participants was known to one degree or another, Niall did not suspect any plans.
Solo career
The fall of 2016 began for fans of Niall Horan with a joyful event - Capital Records officially began working with a young singer, he soon released his first single, This Town. Critics noted that in this work, Niall showed himself not only as a vocalist, but also as a composer. The song took a worthy 20th place on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
After two more successful singles and a video for the song Too Much To Ask, the long-awaited Niall Horan solo album was released, containing 10 standard and three bonus tracks. The debut album was a stunning success and won first place on the Billboard 200, in the first seven days 152 thousand copies were bought. In more than 60 countries, he became, if not the first, then one of the leading.
Thanks to fruitful work in 2017, Niall Horan was awarded at the American Music Awards ceremony as the best new artist of the year, and the following year he launched a world tour in support of his album. Many believe that in the near future the young artist will continue to delight fans and connoisseurs of good music with a series of singles and another album. While the version is being confirmed: Niall Horan has already released two new singles in 2018. His fans are looking forward to other releases.
Niall Horan's personal life
Either for the image (so that the fans are not upset), or really Niall does not like to let the public into her personal life, since very little is known about the novels of the popular artist. The names of the first beauties circled around the name of Niall Horan in regular newspaper headlines, but all attempts by the press remain at the level of rumors and are not confirmed by the artist. Katy Perry admitted in an interview on one of the radio that the young man was flirting with her, but immediately emphasized that Niall’s intentions were not serious, and she herself loved him very much, but as a friend. It is difficult to say whether there is smoke without fire, but a large number of photos are published on the Internet where Horan hugs or kisses another beauty - whether these are friendly feelings or romantic ones, it is impossible to understand. Niall Horan’s personal life is covered in a veil of secrets, it is obvious that everything is still ahead because he most recently turned 25 years old.
Curious facts
Despite the multimillion-dollar army of fans (and rather, fans), fame, communication with stars of the first magnitude, facts about the life of Niall Horan are really very few. We offer you a selection of interesting fragments from the biography of the famous singer:
- the future artist studied at a Christian school;
- Michael Stephen Buble - the idol of Niall Horan since childhood, he wanted to be like him;
- the singer starred in the popular sitcom iCarly, which tells about teenagers who unexpectedly became popular and it turned out that fame is not as simple as it seems;
- Niall loves 80s music, and his debut album is in the folk-pop genre;
- repeatedly he became the face of well-known brands such as Nokia, HarperCollins, Hasbro and others;
- the singer has a nickname - Nialler;
- Niall Horan believes One Direction can reunite;
- a world-famous singer with a height of 1.73 meters;
- when he became a member of One Direction, managers forced him to put braces to align his teeth;
- afraid of confined spaces;
- Niall is the most popular Irishman on Twitter;
- very proud of working with Ed Sheeran.
Today, the singer continues to develop, delighting fans with new achievements.